One-Way Street Signs Missing or Covered
To enforce a one-way street, the authority must have a 'No Entry' sign at every entrance to the street, plus direction arrows along it, and all of these must meet the required standard. If a 'No Entry' sign is missing from the entrance you used, or is so obscured that it was effectively invisible, the council cannot prove you broke the restriction — because you had no proper warning it existed.
Legal basis
Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions 2016 (TSRGD 2016) diagrams 616, 619; Road Traffic Act 1988 s.36; Traffic Management Act 2004
How to identify this in your case
Visit or Street View the entry point you used. Check for a No Entry sign (diagram 616) at the entry. Check that directional arrows within the street are in place and legible. If any entry point lacks a No Entry sign, contravention cannot be proved against a driver using that entry point.
Sample appeal wording
Dear Representations Team, Re: PCN [NUMBER] — Moving Traffic Contravention I formally challenge this PCN for alleged wrong-way travel on a one-way street. I entered the street via [ENTRY POINT]. Upon inspection (photograph attached), there is no 'No Entry' sign (TSRGD 2016 diagram 616) present at this entry point [or: the sign is obscured / damaged]. Without mandatory signage at the point of entry, the restriction was not lawfully communicated to me. I request cancellation of this PCN. Yours faithfully, [NAME]
Replace [PARKING DATE], [NtK DATE] etc. with your own dates before sending.
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- TSRGD 2016 SI 2016/362 diagram 616
- Road Traffic Act 1988 s.36